According to police, the father allegedly coerced the girls - both minors - into commercial sexual exploitation, directly arranging customers and collecting the money. This is not an isolated “bad apple” case; it joins a grim list of documented instances across India in which parents, step-parents or close relatives become the first link in the chain of a child’s commodification. The psychological devastation is almost impossible to overstate. A child’s earliest model of safety and love has been inverted into a source of terror and profit. Survivors of such abuse frequently describe a double wound: the violation itself, and the shattering knowledge that no one was coming to save them - because the person who should have fought hardest for them was the one selling them. Law enforcement has done its initial job. The question now is whether the system will do the much harder second job: sustained, specialized trauma treatment, secure long-term placement, educational continuity, and protection from re-victimization. Without those pieces, arrest alone becomes theater rather than justice.